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2015-11-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

A LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD ENGINE OF CAMPUS UNREST

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-26 08:32|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Many lose intellectual self-confidence and become unhappy even if they avoid flunking out.

How is it one can 'lose' what one does not have ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-26 08:46|| 2015-11-26 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 They have a void in their heart and soul, it can never be filled with things or emotion. They lack confidence because they've never been challenged and they know it.

Posted by Grampaw tse Tung8411 2015-11-26 09:45|| 2015-11-26 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Notice the sense of URGENCY implied by ALL-CAPITAL LETTERS!!!

I bet he stole that hackneyed technique from the Brits.

Posted by Pappy 2015-11-26 09:46|| 2015-11-26 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Plus there's that old "Your too stupid to attend this campus without Affirmative Action" message which AA implies.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-11-26 10:05|| 2015-11-26 10:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Plus there's that old "Your too stupid to attend this campus without Affirmative Action" message which AA implies.

Or "You owe us for the 'opportunity.' We'd look upon it favorably should you you reciprocate."

Posted by Pappy 2015-11-26 10:55|| 2015-11-26 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Affirmative action is the source of all evil

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-26 11:11|| 2015-11-26 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 I wouldn't say all evil but it's certainly bad enough.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-11-26 12:24|| 2015-11-26 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Most are, rather, victims of the very large admissions preferences that set up racial-minority students for academic struggle at the selective universities

Of course, they're perfectly happy to take advantage of these preferences when it suits them, so my sympathy meter is at zero.

Posted by charger 2015-11-26 12:49|| 2015-11-26 12:49|| Front Page Top

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